Hotfile has settled with Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and under the terms will have to part with a whopping $80 million and implement “digital fingerprinting” copyright filtering technology. The digital…
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Court orders search engines to de-list, ISPs to block DPstream, Fifostream and Allostreaming
In what could be dubbed as the king of all DMCA takedown requests, Paris High Court has ordered Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to de-list all infringing URLs belonging to three video portals…
Brits hunting for Project Free TV alternatives after ISP blockade
Multiple sites including Project Free TV, PrimeWire and Yify torrents were blocked in the UK by all major ISPs on November 22 after a court order. Users flocked to Reddit and social networking…
Russian court orders The Pirate Bay founder to take down Rutor.org, Kinozal.tv
A Russian court has joined the ‘punish Gottfrid Svartholm’ bandwagon and has held Gottfrid Svartholm responsible for copyright infringements that take place though Rutor.org and Kinozal.tv. Svartholm is listed as the registrant…
Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire blocked in the UK
Movie industry in the UK is having a ball as far as blocking of sites allegedly involved in piracy is concerned as courts have asked UK ISPs to enforce a blockade on…
RARBG, Torlock, LimeTorrents still unblocked in the UK, but for how long?
BPI and MPA, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, are having a field day in the UK on one hand gaining ISP level blockades of domains allegedly involved in piracy and copyright…
Digital library legal dispute ends up in Google’s favour
The long-running Digital library legal dispute has finally come to an end with the Judge ruling in Google’s favour. The dispute started way back in 2005 when the US Authors Guild accused…
UK court orders ISPs to block SolarMovie, TubePlus
UK high court has ordered all six major ISPs in the country to impose a blockade on two streaming portals SolarMovie and TubePlus on copyright infringement grounds. SolarMovie and TubePlus are ranked…
BPI wins blockade of 21 pirate sites in the UK
A British High Court judge has ordered a blockade of 21 new pirate sites including BitSnoop, TorrentDownloads, ExtraTorrent and mp3skull effective on all major UK ISPs effective today. The court order is…
British ISPs ordered to block 21 pirate sites including BitSnoop, ExtraTorrent, Torrentz
[Update 30/10/2013 @ 17:45 GMT: IsoHunt.com finds a new home – IsoHunt.to] British High Court has ordered major UK ISPs including BSkyB, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica and Virgin to start blocking…
Gary Fung on IsoHunt settlement: “It’s sad to see my baby go”
Update IsoHunt.com shuts early; Gary Fung says “I’ll be backkk” Original Story Gary Fung, founder of IsoHunt.com, and MPAA settled outside of court yesterday sending a shockwave through the torrent world as…
Breaking: IsoHunt.com settles with MPAA, will shut down as part of the deal
Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has revealed today that Gary Fung, owner of IsoHunt.com, has agreed to a settlement and as a part of the deal the torrent indexing site will…
Google Fights Proposed German Copyright Law
Google has launched a campaign calling for the German people to petition against proposed legislation that could allow German websites to charge search engines a fee for featuring their content in search…
Apple and Samsung Await US Verdict
In the wake of last month’s findings by the UK High Court, which proclaimed Samsung’s innocence, Apple was ordered to fund and run an advertising campaign, apologising for slander and announcing that…